The Hakubi Project

Dec. 16, 2020  Notice 

【Important】 Notice of call for applications for 2021 【Global Type】(The call for applications has been closed. )

The Information Meeting has been closed.

May. 18, 2021  Seminar 

Hakubi Seminar Announcement (197th meeting)

Title："Rogue waves in the Laboratory and Nature"
Speaker：Associate Professor Amin CHABCHOUB (Hakubi 11th, Disaster Prevention Research Institute)
Date：25th May 2021 (Tuesday), 16:30-
Venue：Zoom (Closed)
Presentation Language：English

May. 17, 2021  Media Coverage 

Assistant Professor Toshitaka SUZUKI (Graduate School of Science) will appear in a TV show "Darwin ga kita!" aired by NHK Sogo television on May 23th (7:30pm-8:00pm).

Program："Darwin ga kita!" on NTV
On air Schedule： Sunday, May 23th, 2021 7:30pm-8:00pm
URL： https://www.nhk.jp/p/darwin/ts/8M52YNKXZ4/episode/te/ZN3XJN19PL/

May. 11, 2021  Research 

The illustration representing a paper written by Associate Professor Masanori SHIMONO (Medical School) was selected as the cover art of PLOS Computational Biology.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLOSCompBiol/status/1390797340101939200
Current issue: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/issue

May. 6, 2021  Publications 

Associate Professor Shuta NAKAJIMA (Graduate School of Science) published a paper online.(Nature Physics)

Competition and interplay between topology and quasi-periodic disorder in Thouless pumping of ultracold atoms

Nakajima S, Takei N, Sakuma K, Kuno Y, Marra P and Takahashi Y

Nature Physics. April 29, 2021
URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01229-9
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01229-9
URL（Press release/Kyoto University HP）: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2021-04-30-1

(peer-reviewed)

Apr. 30, 2021  Publications 

Associate Professor Amin CHABCHOUB (Disaster Prevention Research Institute) published a paper online.(Physical Review Letters)

Stabilization of Unsteady Nonlinear Waves by Phase-Space Manipulation

Gomel , Chabchoub A, Brunetti M, Trillo S, Kasparian J, and Armaroli A

Physical Review Letters. 126, 174501, 2021/04/27
URL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.174501
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.174501

(peer-reviewed)

Apr. 30, 2021  Seminar 

Hakubi Seminar Announcement (196th meeting)

Title："Light and matter at low temperature"
Speaker：Associate Professor Motoaki BAMBA(Hakubi 11th batch, Graduate School of Science)
Date：11th May 2021 (Tuesday), 16:30-
Venue：Zoom (Closed)
Presentation Language：Mainly in English

Apr. 27, 2021  Presentation 

Associate Professor Sven RUDOLPH (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies) gave a joint talk with Ting WANG at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts (online).

2021/4/24, presentation title: "Gender sensitivity - gender mainstreaming and climate change policies in China", conference title: Living on the Edge 2021-Stories that connect us., location: Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts (online)/Kyoto, Host organization: Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
URL： https://lotej2021.eventzil.la/session-locations/203

(peer-reviewed)

Apr. 26, 2021  Presentation 

Associate Professor Sven RUDOLPH (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies) gave a talk at Deutsches Institut fuer Japanforschung et al. (online).

2021/4/19-4/23, presentation title: "Linking emission trading schemes in the Pacific region - The sustainability challenge", location: Tokyo (online), Host organization: Deutsches Institut fuer Japanforschung (DIJ)
URL： https://www.dijtokyo.org/event/climate-change-energy-and-sustainability-in-the-pacific-regionknowledge-policies-and-transfers-1970s-present/

(peer-reviewed)

Apr. 19, 2021  Media Coverage 

Assistant Professor Satomi HIYAMA (Institute for Research in Humanities) published an interview article in a newspaper (Kyoto Shimbun).

Information

Kyoto Shimbun
Title「'Sacred World' woven by the visual arts」
Publication date:8th April 2021(Thursday)
URL： https://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/articles/-/542334

Apr. 9, 2021  Publications 

Associate Professor Masanori SHIMONO (Medical School) published a paper online (PLOS Computational Biology).

Inhibitory neurons exhibit high controlling ability in the Cortical Microcomnectome.

Kajiwara M, Nomura R, Goetze F, Isomura Y, Kawabata M, Akutsu T, Shimono M

PLOS Computational Biology. 17(4): e1008846, April 8, 2021.
URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008846
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008846.g001
URL（Press release/Kyoto University HP）: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2021-04-09

(peer-reviewed)

Apr. 8, 2021  Seminar 

Hakubi Seminar Announcement (195th meeting)

Title："“Vacancy” in Buildings and Parcels: Trends, Factors, and Influences"
Speaker：Assistant Professor Hiroki BABA(Hakubi 11th batch, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
Date：20th month 2021 (Tuesday), 16:30-
Venue：Zoom (Closed)
Presentation Language：Mostly Japanese (brief explanation for each slide in English)

Apr. 7, 2021  Award/Commendation 

Associate Professor Masayuki USHIO (Center for Ecological Research) received "The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology".

Information of the award

Prizewinner：Masayuki USHIO
Award：The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Organization：MEXT
Title of the awarded research achievement：野外生態系動態の制御機構に関する研究
Date：April 14, 2021

[web link of the award]
MEXT
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/mext_00547.html (Japanese)

Apr. 7, 2021  Award/Commendation 

Assistant Professor Toshitaka SUZUKI (Graduate School of Science) received "The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology".

Prizewinner：Toshitaka SUZUKI
Award：The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Organization：MEXT
Title of the awarded research achievement：鳥類の音声コミュニケーションに関する動物言語学的研究
Date：April 14, 2021

[web link of the award]
MEXT
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/mext_00547.html (Japanese)

Apr. 1, 2021  Publications 

Assistant Professor Toshitaka SUZUKI (Graduate School of Science) wrote a teaching material for a Japanese textbook of junior high school (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing Co.,Ltd.).

Textbook Information

・Japanese textbook of junior high school (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing Co.,Ltd.)
・Title: The Japanese tit: a bird that uses “language”
・Author: Toshitaka SUZUKI
・From April 1, 2021
・URL (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing):
https://www.mitsumura-tosho.co.jp/2021c_kyokasho/kokugo/

　

Mar. 26, 2021  Publications 

Associate Professor Sven RUDOLPH (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies) published a paper.(Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht (ZfU))

Nachhaltiger Emissionshandel im Verkehrssektor – Eine kritische Bewertung des deutschen Brennstoff-Emissionshandels

Lerch A, Rudolph S, Ikkatai S, Kawakatsu T, Aydos, E

Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht (ZfU). 44(1), 1-13, March 2021
URL: https://online.ruw.de/suche/zfu/

(peer-reviewed)